Showing 1 - 10 of 36
I'm with the band -- how music made me British
News, Howard Chua-Eoan, Published on 31/08/2024
» 'Wonderwall' is all I remember. The rest of Oasis is a blur to me. I was still living in New York City when the band had their global breakthrough -- and that song was everywhere. From the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, it's one of the few mid-1990s songs whose lyrics this Boomer can remember. I admired its Beatles-like off-kilter poetics, its love-will-save-the-day (if not, maybe it'll just save me) sentimentality. And Liam Gallagher's voice, while not beautiful, was pure plaintive Britpop, a plangent inflexion echoing from as far back as 1962's Love Me Do by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Making roads healthier for travel
News, Jesus Carlos Soto and Silpa Wairatpanij, Published on 19/08/2024
» The world's cities are growing, and their roadways are becoming overwhelmed. Motor vehicles are the world's leading cause of death for people between the ages of 2 and 29, killing 1.2 million people and injuring up to 50 million annually, according to the World Health Organization's update on Dec 13, 2023.
AI's brain fog no defence for arts
News, Parmy Olson, Published on 05/07/2024
» Ever notice how science fiction gets things wrong about future technology? Instead of flying cars, we got viral tweets that fuelled culture wars. Instead of a fax machine on your wrist, we got memes. We're having a similar reality check with artificial intelligence. Sci-fi painted a future with computers that delivered reliable information in robotic parlance. Yet businesses who've tried plugging generative AI tools into their infrastructure have found, with some dismay, that the tools "hallucinate" and make mistakes. They are hardly reliable. And the tools themselves aren't stiff and mechanistic either. They're almost whimsical.
War proves X and Meta are publishers as well
News, Michael Arceneaux, Published on 21/10/2023
» The Hamas-Israel conflict is unfolding after social media developers spent the summer trying to replace X (then-Twitter).
Japan's media has to account for its own failures
News, Gearoid Reidy, Published on 16/10/2023
» The recent downfalls in Japan of the Unification Church and J-pop agency Johnny & Associates seem to be, on the face of it, victories for justice: Two odious groups that used their outsized clout for years to cover up noxious acts have at last been hobbled, if not eliminated.
Man held over cut-up lover
News, Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 03/10/2022
» SAMUT PRAKAN: A man has been arrested for killing his lover at a Muang district condo, dismembering her body, putting thre remains in black plastic bags and burying them under an expressway, police said.
Filipinos return to campus after 2.5yrs
News, Rassel Meigan Rodriguez, Published on 19/09/2022
» Rediscovering face-to-face interaction and spontaneity. Navigating technology-related woes, and juggling remote and in-person classes. Facing sharp increases in living costs. Worrying if they missed out on quality education due to the Philippines' school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic, as graduation time nears.
Bangkok offers glimpse into the past
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 07/03/2022
» Stroll along the Chao Phraya River and visit the old quarter of the capital Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and you can see living proof of the harmonious mixture of Thai-Chinese and European cultures, which still carries a connection from ancient Ayutthaya to the modern Rattanakosin era.
Pic takes the cake
News, Published on 28/12/2021
» Re: "Uproar over cardinal's cake photo", (BP, Dec 25).
Christmas star to shine in Isan
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 13/12/2021
» The Christmas Star Festival in Sakon Nakhon has been among the much-anticipated annual events in Thailand for decades. But it's going to be more exciting this year with a floating procession at Nong Han Lake and a new marble archangel sculpture at the St Michael's Cathedral in tambon Tha Rae of Muang district.